Picture-mounting device.



I No. 852,018. IATENTED APR. 30, 1907.

A. W. ENGEL. n

PICTURE MOUNTING DEVICE.

APPLIUATION FILED Nov. 4, 1904.

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ALBERT Vf. lGNt'tFili, (,)F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PICTURE-MOUN'lNG DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Anolicitifn'. filed November 4,1904. Serial No. 231,456.

Be itlv'nown that l, r.Mini-uri' W. lCxuiii., a citizen ot the linited States, residing at ("hicago, in the countv ol (`ool\' and State ot lllinients in Picture-Mounting Devices, ot` which the l'ollowing is a specilication, ret'crence heing had to the accompanying drawings, l'orining a` part thcreo'l'. l

'lhe purpose ol' this invention is to provide an iniproved device i'or securing photographs or other pictures and cards upon a inat. card or otliei' inount` in iiy convenient and ornaniental.inanner.

lt consists ot' the features ol' construction ot the device which are set out in the claiins.

ln the drawings:Y--fFigure t represents a picture inounted upon a niat or card liy 4means ot' devices involving` niy invention,

l'our dill'erent 't'orins otI which are shown :it Fig. 2 is a siinilar view showing a pictiii'e secured hy a single securing device containing all l'our corner pieces integral and alil-Le. Fig'. I is a sii-nilar view ol" a. picture having corner pieces enil odying in v invention ready Vt'or securing upon a card or other niount. Fig. -l isa view ol'tlie hach side o` the picture shown in Fig. 1,'with its corner pieces hetore securing upon the nuit, ard or other niount. Fig'. o is a siniilar haclv view ol' the device shown in Fig. 2 hel'ore securing to the niount. Fig. (i is a similar hach view ol the device shown in Fig. it. Figs. 7, S, t), tt), il and l2 are plan views ot'v the several tornis ol'4 coi'iier pieces as prepared for attaching to cards oi' pictures Vt'or their purpose.

lin all the 'fornis ot' the device which constitutes the present invention, it enihodies a corner piet-.e tor a picture, hy ineans o'l" which it may he secured to :i inount which is guiuined upon one suri'aee and has two diagonal iipertures, through hoth ol which the corner-of theI card or picture. niiiy he inserted integral device represented in Fig. 2,wherein all the `four corners are on one piece which' is large enough to extend hach of the entiref area of the picture and beyond the saine at all nntrgins. rThe two apertures in this `torni consist niereiy ot striught slits 1, l, hoth diol" ii square iard. inaliing an angle ot" 45 degrees with the two sides, the iniiei' slit, l, being prel'erahly longer than the outer one, So

M v that. thc two slits at their opposite ends renois, have invented new and usel`ullinpi'ovcspectively terniiiiate in converging lines con "he advantage ot this relation of length ot' -the two apertures is that thereby the corner piece when applied to the hill depth of the `apertures is situated with respect to tho Corner as contemplated in the design, ywhich is usually syininetricafl. l

ln the l'orin shown in Fig. 11, which is ay doiihle design adapted to he, applied so as lo expose either oll two ornainental corners, the two slits :ire ot" equal lenglh,r and the syinnietrical placing ol' the corner piece is dependent upon the care ot' the operator.

ln the l'orins' shown in Figs. 7 and l] both the apertures ai'e niei'e slits` no niaterial lieing eut away, hut in the other forms shown, the inaterial is in part cut away froni the inner side otz the iiuiei' or longer slit, leaving, however, a portion at hothendsl'oi'ininghorns or lugs, $3, 2%, projectingl toward each other sull'icien'tly to overhang or project under the niargin ol' the picture when the corner piece properly placed on the corner of the latter, lt will he seen that an)P of. these corner pieces inay he mounted in either of two ways and therebyY niaile to produce two di'llei'eiit appearances, so lar as ornament is coiu'erned. '.lhese dill'erent Ways of niounting the saine forni of corner piece are shown in the di'll'ei'ent parts of the drawings, ii-nilconsist respectivelyr in inserting the corner ot the picture under or over the diagonal hand torined between the two apar tures. V[n case the picture is inserted under the lia-ud, the guinined surface of the band adheres to theI forward or upl'ier-tnce of the card or picture, while the remainder'of the gunnned surhice of tho device is exposed at the bac/li for adherence to the mount. If

agonal with respect to the corner, and in clase the corner of the picture is inserted over the t'oiined to the edges t'orining the corner of the 'i IOO IIC:

diagonal band, the gunnned surface of the corner piece is in contact with the tace ot the picture at so inuch of the latter prt trudes beyond the diagonal band, and also at whatever portion there may he left, standing of the corner piece. inside of said band, said last-mentioned portion beingr only the surface of the lugs, 3, 3, in the forms which have such lugswthat is7 which are cut away from the inner side of the inner aperture; but in cast of the forms shown in Figs. 7 and ll it comprises a` more considererable arca of gun'nned surface, and in cach case all the remainder ol the `summed surface is exposed at the back for adherence to the niount.

When tho forni shown in Fig. 2 is enployedI it may have an)vr number of lugs, 3, I, struck from the substance of the integral device without removing an)v material, such lugs beingr distrihuted at snitahle distances along the edges of the picture to lhold the latter llat against an)V tendenc)v to curl or bulge, to which large pictures particularly would be liable, and it is for thisl purpose that the expedient is useful. The same expedient nia)Y be employed in thel detached corner pieces, that is to say, there ma)Y be more than one ol snch lugs, 3, in an)Y of the forms which present these lugs, and in which the design permits the extension of the corner pieces l'ar enough to carr)Y an additional lng". 'l`l:is is illustrated in l"i; ij. l2, in. which the design. is snhstanliallY the saine as certain of tlc other ligures except that the corner picco is extended at both sides so as to carry an additional lug', il, more remote from the corner than the lugsI 3%, and thasthe lng7 I, is struck ont ol the corner piece without removing' anyv raw material iroin around it.

An)r additional number oll slits ma) be einp eyed, the corner of the picture or card being laced bach and forth through them with the elcct merely oll creating two or more instead olI one diagonal hand across the corner-malternate bands lyingg` on opposite sides of the cards. .1"lg. l() is an illustration of such a modification, two bands beinr caitsed by three apertures, two of which are inere slits, and the third or inner one having the material cut away at the inner side as in Figs. 7 and l claim 1- t. A picture-mounting device comprising a corner piece gunnned uponene side only i a corner-fitting gun'nned on one surface and apertured diagonallytat two lines forming an intervening band.

4. A pieture-mounting device comprising a corner-piece rammed upon one surface'and having a band formed by diagonal slits which stop short of the marginal edges and are adapted for the insertion of the corner of a card or picture through them across the intervening.r band.

5. .k picture-mounting device comprising a corneri'ittiug gummed upon one surface and apertured diagonali)v at two lilies forining an intervening hand, the two apertures beingjr terminated at their corresponding ends respectivelT at two converging lines which correspond to the edges which forni the corner of the picture which is served b v the fitting.

A picture-mounting device comprising a corner-piece guinxned on one surface and havingr a diagonal band severed at the sides and nnsevered at vthe ends from the remainder of the piece, said corner-piece haviner at the opposite side of said diagonal band from the corner, lugs7 25, projecting inward across the lines which correspond to the edges formingv the corner which is served by the fitting.

ln testimonyr whereof, lV have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two Witnesses, atI t'hicago, Illinois, this 30th day of September,' 1904.

Finn). G. Fisemcn, M. Cr. ADY.

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